with Thanks

Thank you Vicki from Lovejoybears blog for the sweet mini dolls house pansies in pots.

The detail and time that must go into making something so small and decorative!- Just Lovely!!!!.

Thank you for sending them to cheer my day- So thoughtful of you x

Please check out her blog as its full to the brim of small and wonderful creations!.

feels a bit festive in my home today...loving the smell of festive spice candles.

I dont have much time to rabbit on today...As i'll be off out in a minute for the School run.

Life is a bit of a yo-yo at the moment...

x Kazzy x

Sneezy, Sniffly, Stuffy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Chesty, Drippy

Thats all the dwarf's of my cold! Hehe...I'm feeling totally under the weather today- The lurgy's got its horrid grips on me!!-boohoo!...The weather is totally pants anyways!-Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain...did i mention Rain??!!...So, Lets have a bit of cheery-ness!...Granny Chic styly!!!!.

Oh' what a lovely book...And only £5.99 in 'The Works' book shop, so i picked one up for my Twinny for Christmas too.

Adorable doggy alert!!!!!...

Least its lovely to be coszy at home...Think of the festivities that lay a head...

Thank you always for all your lovely messages and emails,

cheerio for now my Lovelies,

x Kazzy x

in from the cold

Hello Lovelies,  I thought I'd have a bit of a catch up while i have my Soup for lunch.

I do love lighting all the candles when i'm at home~ feels cozy like that when you've been out in the cold.

The weather's been quite stormy all week~ so very wet and windy!. Not such a joyful walk to the school.

Its been such a busy few months that the thought of Christmas makes me feel that soon after all the School activities, Christmas plays, appointments, meetings we will soon then be able to relax for a week over the Christmas period. Life sure seems very full on right now for me...I cant wait to have some family time with Loved ones from Essex. I love having my family around me. Sweet pea's ear infection is now fully better and she's been looking much brighter in herself...I found out this week she will be the 'Story Teller' in the School Christmas play~ she has a few lines to learn!...and I brought her a fairy tale costume for the part.

In the evenings i've felt so tired...all I've wanted to do is put my feeties up and chat with my Sweet pea about School life. She always has so much to tell me~ i love hearing the gossip! ;0)

In between the stormy skies there were glimpses of sunlight.

I've been working on some Christmas cards.

Sweet pea loves Puppet shows at the moment~ she also have a big stand up stage, but lately she's been showing me her shows on her little stage...She comes home with lots of drawings from School. I've been trying to have a big sort through of all of them!- I dont like throwing things out when they're your childs drawings, but I've been sorting through to keep the best art work.  I love Sweet pea's people!.

Keep cozy,

x Kazzy x

Toasted fairies

I do enjoy a non-pupil day as it means we get to be really lazy!~ No rushing up the hill to the school gates in a mad panic! - good job I do not have more than one child~ My hat goes off to those that do it really does.  Sweet pea's had an ear infection and sore throat, she's been on antibiotics but has been to School all week. She's a little fighter!.  She seemed so tired today though, but the doc' said the antibiotics might make her feel more tired.  So we haven't done very much at all really, sleepy morning followed by breakfast under my double duvet, watched dvds, cuddled and when Sweet pea was feeling a little more active after lunch she gave me a puppet show...It reminded me of those precious times before School when we had our week days together ~ I miss that.

Toasted Fairies made breaky a little more fun,

x Kazzy x

down the lane...

Walking with my Mother is a lovely thing and I so enjoy it...From a tiny little person I grew up walking with my Mother, back then hand in hand and little froggy wellies jumping in any puddle I could find and my Twinny beside me too...A real adventure!!...The lovely thing is that feeling of excitement has never changed. I'm still that tiny person within excited that I'm off for a walk with my Mother. She knows all the names of Tree's and flowers and birds flying over head and often stops to listen to the birds within the hedgerows. I love this about my Mother. She passes  down her knowledge to me and I wish sometimes I had her memory as I find I forget these wonderful facts if I do not write them down there and then...In a lot of ways my Mother and Myself are very different, we haven't always seen eye to eye in the past...But what brings us together is a real love and bond to the things around us in nature and beauty in the simple things, simple pleasures.  I know a lot of Mothers that go have a spa day together or go shopping, but what brings us together is the great outdoors.  And that to me is a very special thing...

I've needed that urgent fix of getting away for a few hours and just relaxing in the Country. My body has felt so utterly stressed and sad and at the moment I do not see an end in sight of these feelings- But I know just escaping into the land and just getting back to basics is a real relaxing tonic to me.

I felt so happy capturing everything I saw on my camera. I love photography and I really miss not doing it often. It was lovely to capture and share with You all my walk down the lanes near my Mother's cottage.

My Mother's good at grounding my thoughts and working them through with me calmly...giving me advise and helping me see the bigger picture.  And being a tower of strength when my body crumbles.

Autumn is my favourite month...The colours of the changing leaves are breathtaking...

Today, It was actually very warm, sunny and bright...hazy skies.

We are still finding new lanes and new adventures...We never do have a set plan of where we are going, but we always end up where we wanted to...and meet new friends along the way too.

Warm Autumnal wishes,

x Kazzy x

p.s Note to last posting- Its not quite Winter yet!~ I spoke a bit too soon.

Autumn to Winter

Hello there lovelies, Its been chilly-woollies here!...Very cold getting out of bed early in the Mornings and removing a toasty little six year old from her comfy warm bed to a freezing cold bathroom to get ready for the School runs...The West Countries even had a sprinkling of the white stuff!!!!. Big woolly knits and toasty hats are very much needed now.

There's a real change in the air from Autumn to Winter.  The tree's in their Autumn splendor do look fan-bloooming-tastical in the park though, so I am not quite ready for harsh Winters and skeleton branches.

The charity shops have started digging out all their box's of Christmas decors and I enjoyed a good old rummage yesterday before the School run...I do love the tatty old charity shops run by dear older ladies selling wonderful things for peanuts (these charities are a rare breed now!)...Such a charity (that I will not name in fear it might modernise over night, but totally love!) had a box of wonderful Vintage baubles 4 for a £1... a little angel 50p and a Robin that flaps its wings 50p...I also brought a set of Cornish ware cups for 49p each!-Totally skipped with JOY on the way to pick Sweet pea up from School.  Its funny the things that can turn a thrown upside down for me!.  

1. button brooch cloud with colourful rain drops (gift from my Twinny) 2. images of delight from the new Calender from the Christmas edition of Homes and Interiors magazine 3. Autumn posy of flowers and leaves in my kitchen 4. Golden tree in the park turning red

Coffee on a cold day!.

Keep snuggly as bugglys my lovelies,

x Kazzy x

flickering joys

Life sure takes us all on very big highs and very deep lows. I've been feeling the latter the last few months. Emotionally and physically I'm done in by what life's thrown at me and trying to keep my head above water as they say...Its not been easy. I keep telling myself things will get better. But when??...Its been an awfully long wait so far. My little girl has been my focus ~ My happy light at the end of a very dark tunnel. I would explain whats been happening in my life, but some things are private and I'm not entirely sure I want everyone to know my personal life.  I have had some very lovely emails from bloggers and I am very thankful for your thoughtfulness and kind words...

Tonight, I lit all my candles as Sweet pea loves watching them flicker.  I had hardly been taking any photographs because of the way I have been feeling, but I got a little flicker in my heart and wanted to capture the moments~ A joyful moment when we were both really smiling and really enjoying something quite simple. That moment when you loose yourself in a truly happy feeling.

On another really, really happy note...My Twinny said I can now mention that she's expecting her second child...She's reached nearly 14 weeks into her pregnancy!!!!. 

x Kazzy x